With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were … on labor market careers and show that they often become apparent only at certain life stages. While war injuries reduced … employment in old age, former prisoners of war postponed their retirement. Many displaced workers, particularly women, never …

This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an … stationary war losses and premature adult mortality. If parents are altruistic and their sub-utility function for own consumption …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models …

used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an … Vietnamese civilians located in a commune one-standard-deviation more exposed to herbicide during the war were 19.75 percent more …

This paper estimates the causal long-term consequences of an exposure to war in utero and during childhood on the risk …

having been given a first name that is synonymous with the leader(s) of the fascist Croatian state during World War II … predicts volunteering for army service in the 1991-1995 Croatian war of independence and dying during the conflict. Next, we … the evolution of nationalism and its intergenerational transmission across locations affected by extreme war …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …